Journal 3

Page 26: Metaphor - "Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her."

As the first sentence of the chapter, this metaphor foreshadows the whole chapter, and perhaps the rest of the book. She lets us know through a metaphor and Janie's relationship with Logan Killicks is getting worse, and that he is not treating her as nice as he did at first.

Page 27: Simile - "Logan held his wad of tobacco real still in his jaw like a thermometer of his feelings while he studied Janie's face and waited for her to say something."

This simile is used to describes Logan's face at that moment. When you hold a thermometer in your mouth you hold it real still and don't move a muscle. He holds the tobacco in the mouth just as still as he studies Janie in a pause of their conversation.

Page 27: Imagery - "It was a cityfied, stylish dressed man with his hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts. His coat was over his arm, but he didn't need it to represent his clothes. The shirt with teh silk sleeveholders was dazzling enough for the world. He whistled, mopped his face and walked like he knew where he was going. He was a seal-brown color but he acted like Mr. Washburn or somebody like that to Janie."

Zora Neale Hurston uses this imagery to describe a most incredible man. Janie is from the country and she has not seen a man of this sort. He even has his "hat set at an angle that didn't belong in these parts". Right of the bat you can tell this is going to be an important character in the story from his long, elegant description. It also shows that Janie is instantly attracted to him.


page 30: Situational Irony -
"'S'posin' Ah wuz to run off and leave yuh sometime.'
There! Janie had put words in his held-in fears. She might run off sure enough. The thought put a terrible ache in Logan's body, but he thought it best to put on scorn."

This moment is when Janie wants to see what Logan would think about her running off. Little to his knowledge, she is planning on it. This whats going on in each of their heads and how bad their relationship is at this point.

Page 31: Personification - "The sun from ambush was threatening the world with red daggers, but the shadwos were gray and sollid-looking around the barn."
She personifies the sun by saying it is threatening the world with a dagger. This description tells us that it is uncomfortably hot outside and is going to get worse. Logan is telling her to come out and work, raising the problem of their relationship.